Joanna Gruesome – Live At The Forum Club, London – January 16, 2014 – band tape –
Joanna Gruesome were formed in 2010 in Cardiff by Owen Willams (guitar and vocals), Max Warren (bass), and George Nicholls (guitar). Their core line-up solidified with the addition of Lan McArdle (lead vocals) and Dave Sandford (drums) in 2012. The band would include in their (largely fabricated) press releases that they had met and formed in anger management sessions. Each member adopted the surname ‘Gruesome’ as a nod to bands like Ramones.
Their debut album, Weird Sister, received praise from Pitchfork, This is fake DIY, and Rough Trade. On 28 November 2014, the band won the Welsh Music Prize for that record. They released their second album, Peanut Butter, on 11 May in the UK via Fortuna Pop!, and on 2 June in the US via Slumberland Records.
In June 2015, the band announced Lan McArdle would depart from the band. They were replaced by Kane Stonestreet from the bands Pennycress and Roxy Brennan from Two White Cranes, Grubs and TOWEL. They played their final show in 2017.
Lan McArdle and Owen Williams formed a new band Ex-Vöid in 2018 and Williams and Nicholls formed The Tubs the same year.[5]
I just ran across this club gig from January of 2014. The mix is a bit buried in the vocals, but I suspect that might have been the desired sound.
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